| Description | A table of contents can be found at the front of the file; this table of contents dates to c2000.
The file contains Labanotated scores of modern dance techniques and exercises.
Some of the Labanotated scores are originals, dating mid-20th Century. Some of the Labanotated scores are photocopies, made mid- to late-20th Century, with originals dated mid- to late-20th Century.
Contains the following techniques and exercises:
- Techniques and exercises by Hanya Holm, including "Walking Sequences - With Turns", "Etude #1", "Etude #2", "Etude #3", "Laban Six Scales", "Development of a Weight Shift Pattern: Undercurve and Overcurve", "Arm Swing Development", "Torso Extension Study", "Circular Walk, Leading with the Hip", "Waltz Study", "Tarantella", and "Roll-Over Fall Study". Also includes notes on movement analysis, as discussed by Hanya Holm.
- [Hanya] Holm technique, as taught by Charlene Tarver
- [Lester] Horton technique by Joyce Trissler
- Lester Horton technique, including "Flat Back", "Lateral", "Five Four Swing", "Prelude 1", "Pliés Bounces", "Knee Hinge", "Lateral - Crossing Floor", "Lateral", "Bounce and Stretch in Deep Lunge", "Dimentional Tonus", "Leg Swings Across Floor", "Prelude 3", "Percussive Study", "Percussive Stroke Study", "Coccyx", "Coccyx Pieta Study", "Elementary Balance", "Knee Hinge Study", "Elevation Study", and "Hip Left from Ventral Side"
- "Lester Horton Vocabulary" by James Truitte
- "Deep Floor Vocabulary: Lester Horton Technique" by James Truitte
- Techniques and exercises by Lucas Hoving, including "Breathing", "Etude", and "Across the Floor" (these Labanotated scores are in English and German)
- "From Studio to Stage" Humphrey-Weidman technique demonstration, staged by Nona Schurman
- Nona Schurman technique in Humphrey-Weidman style, including "Bounces on Four", "Pliés Turned In", "Pliés Turned Out", "Jumps on Four", "Jumps on Two", "Jumps on Three", "Short Floor Exercise", "Feet Exercise", "Short Hip Shift Combination", "Floor Exercise on Ten", "Plain Jumps", "Variation of Jump on Five", "High Kicks", "Leg and Feet Stretch", "Extension Exercise", "Variation of Kicks", "Exercise for the Upper Torso", "Pavanne", "Floor Study", and "Combination on 4 and 6"
- Weidman technique taught by (Nona Schurmann?)
- Excerpts from "Ritmo Jondo" by Doris Humphrey
- Nona Shurman technique, including "Beginner's Warm Up: Forward Succession from Standing", "Beginner's Warm Up: Whole Torso", "Floor Successions", "Back Study", "Lyric Study", "First Series of Falls", excerpts from "With My Red Fires", and "Second Series of Falls"
- Charles Weidman technique, including "Primitive Study", "Hop Leaps", "Second Series of Turns", excerpt from "The Wind in the Willows", "A Study in Contrasts", "Rhythmic Study in Eleven", and "Body Bends"
- "Joint Signs" from "With My Red Fires" by Doris Humphrey |